Flower basket Niō
(Hanakago Niō 花籠仁王)
(2015)
- Medium
- bamboo
- Measurements
- 70.0 × 52.0 × 51.0 cm
- Place/s of Execution
- Beppu, Japan
- Accession Number
- 2015.497
- Department
- Asian Art
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased with funds donated by Baillieu Myer AC and Sarah Myer, 2015
© Yufu Shohaku - Gallery location
- Level 1, NGV International
- About this work
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Yufu Shohaku is one Japan’s most respected senior bamboo artists. His monumental works combine a wide variety of parts from the bamboo plant, including giant stems, sturdy straps, thinly sliced strips and gnarly roots. Flower basket Niō features a flower basket with the authoritative presence of a fierce Buddhist temple guardian (Niō), and can be interpreted as a preserver of the rustic qualities of Japan’s bamboo-crafting past.